Let’s all be honest about Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19: Evidence is more positive than many in the medical community admit

The New York Daily News ^ | 10/13/2020 | By DR. JOSEPH A. LADAPO and DR. HARVEY A. RISCH

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Hydroxychloroquine is ineffective and unsafe in the treatment of COVID-19: This is the belief held by millions of Americans and many healthcare professionals. After months of randomized clinical trials yielding findings that were not statistically significant, and others reporting side effects, no one could be blamed for reaching this conclusion.

But an important slice of the hydroxychloroquine data tells a different story.

Because of the medication’s politicization, and the pernicious tendency for dissenting perspectives to be silenced during the pandemic, data supporting hydroxychloroquine’s effectiveness have been almost inaudible. But a recent analysis pooling together results of randomized clinical trials testing hydroxychloroquine’s use in early COVID-19 infection should substantially raise the volume.

The hydroxychloroquine saga cannot be fully appreciated without first considering the unusual circumstances under which it arose. While the medical profession has always sustained debate over which treatments are best, the tenor of the hydroxychloroquine controversy is unique. Physicians who have advocated for its effectiveness have remained steadfast in their support of the medication, despite unsupportive clinical trials enrolling hospitalized patients, social media blackouts of their opinions, and a chorus of politicians and health officials telling them — and the country — that they’re not only wrong but reckless.

While physicians who hold marginalized or unpopular positions about treatments are often considered by peers to be motivated by profit or other self-serving interests, these physicians were unnoteworthy in that regard, and would largely have been considered “mainstream” prior to the pandemic. Their clinical experiences were dismissed as anecdotal, but consistently achieving patient outcomes that were markedly better than those reported around the country fueled their confidence and tenacity. The nation and the world may now benefit from their steadfastness.

[dynoman]

She’s lucky, read post 40. That happened about two weeks ago.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

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[goodnesswins]

My MIL has an excellent care center...luckily....found out today NO ONE at the care center tested positive (they tested right after her positive test.) We can’t figure out how she got it. So sorry about your friend.

[wattsgnu]

I agree. But only the libs will believe it.The normal people will see the only cities/states not recovering are the dem states. Or at least that’s what I hope happens.